Gucci Mane, "The Truth"

Sigh (and a queasy sort of “yay!”):
Here we go again. Another one of the best rap songs of the year
is a threatening “beef record.” Seven years ago, a pair of
Atlanta drug dealer/rappers named Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy
recorded a song together called “Icy.” It was a big
hit, but then the two had a falling out over credit. Jeezy recorded
a diss record called “Stay Strapped,”
putting a $10,000 bounty on Gucci’s “So Icy” chain. Soon
thereafter, four armed men burst into the apartment of a woman
Gucci was visiting. Gucci shot and killed one of them and was
arrested on murder charges,
which the D.A.’s office eventually dropped because Gucci was
acting in self-defense. Three years ago, a mutual friend to both
rappers, DJ Drama, engineered a burying of the hatchet. But, as
will happen, tensions have again
flared. And Gucci Mane has recorded a chilling, thrilling song
about it.